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Edison Illuminating Company Ford Motor Company
2,284 words"A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. " Henry Ford's parents left Ireland during the potato famine and settled in the Detroit area in the 1840 s. Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, was the first of William and Mary Ford's six children. He grew up on a prosperous family farm in what is today Dearborn, Michigan. Henry enjoyed a childhood typical of the rural nineteenth century, spending days in a one-room school and doing farm chores. At an early age, he showed an interest...
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Electric Motor Carbon Dioxide
1,635 wordsHybrid Vehicles 1 Hybrid Vehicles: (Effects on the environment) Arthur Gil Environmental Investigations Professor April 4, 2005 Hybrid Vehicles 2 As gasoline prices increase and the environment becomes unstable, people will begin to look for other modes to power their automobiles. One of those modes is know as hybrid power. A vehicle is considered a hybrid when it combines two or more sources of power. For example, a mo-ped (a motorized pedal bike) is a type of hybrid because it combines the pow...
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One Of The First Electric Vehicles
2,512 wordsHybrid-Electric Vehicle Through the early period of the automotive industry until about 1920, electric automobiles were competitive with petroleum-fueled cars particularly as luxury cars for urban use and as trucks for deliveries at closely related points, for which the relatively low speed and limited range, until battery recharge, were not detrimental. Electrics, many of which were steered with a tiller rather than a wheel, were especially popular for their quietness and low maintenance costs....
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Alternative Fuel Electric Vehicle
848 wordsA Formula One race car accelerates from 0 to 60 mph in under 3 seconds. How could a car that goes 0 to 60 mph in 12 seconds ever be considered cool? The people at Engine Technology International must be impressed because theyve crowned the gas-electric hybrid powerplant from the Honda Insight as International Engine of the Year 2000. 1 The truth is, with a 95 -mpg potential and a 110 mph top speed, the Insight is turning everybody's head while at the same time giving environmentalists a beacon o...
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Miles Per Hour Seat Belts
2,158 wordsThe making of automobiles started in the year 1770. In 1770 a man named Nicholas Joseph Cung not from France built a large steam-driven vehicle. The vehicle didn? t last long because the vehicle could only be driven for 12 to 15 minutes before running out of steam and the vehicle was too heavy and had poor balance and made it difficult to steer. Nothing more had been done until in the 1784. In 1784 James Watt made a patent on a steam carriage, but nothing became of it. Then in 1785 John Fitch in...
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Combustion Chamber Gasoline Engine
709 wordsThe gasoline engine has changed the world forever. When Karl Benz improved the internal combustion engine and put it into an automobile he started something that to this day is still being improved on. The Germans are known for there fine luxury vehicles, but its America that wants bigger and better. Americans have raced their automobiles from the time before Henry Ford rolled his first car of the assembly line. The basic principle of the gasoline engine is the fuel is mixed with air in the carb...
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